The Boat Yard
Wow! Phase one is over I own a 41 year old sailboat. Larry Conrad delivered Cinnamon to A & D Yacht Service at Rocky Point Marina in Portland, Oregon at 6:30 Monday morning. The yard manager Andrew met us and unloaded the boat. We have agreed in advance to the cost of lifting the boat, new bottom paint and splashing her at $29 per foot. The boat is set up on stands and ready for the next phase of the adventure. The boat yard guys call it “discovery”. We start looking things over.
It’s the first time I had a chance to look closely at the mast since we were in quite a rush getting it down and packaged for shipping at on the other end. It’s obvious that the wiring is probably original and been in salt water for 15 years. Most the fittings were corroded to the point of crumbling to dust. It quickly becomes clear that a complete rewire is in order. The standing rigging looks fair, but again probably original so as long as the mast is down might as well refresh it. The mast had another sheave for a spare jib halyard but no fairlead for it to exit at the bottom so we added the fairlead and a messenger line. Then I started sanding on the wooden spreaders to repaint them and found some rot in the wood where holes had been drilled for the spreader lights and the pins, so a new set of Spruce spreaders were made using the old one as a pattern.The last thing on the mast was to add a wind vane transducer for a wind instrument.
The rudder is metal and has been the home to quite a few barnicals so it needs a complete strip down to bare metal and re-primering and painting.